Out-of-line constant pool on Arm: Stage 1 - Free up r7 for use as constant pool pointer register

src/arm/macro-assembler-arm.h

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 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 // Static helper functions
 
 // Generate a MemOperand for loading a field from an object.
 inline MemOperand FieldMemOperand(Register object, int offset) {
   return MemOperand(object, offset - kHeapObjectTag);
 }
 
 
 // Give alias names to registers
-const Register cp = { 8 };  // JavaScript context pointer
+const Register pp = { 7 };  // Constant pool pointer.

[Rodolph Perfetta, 2013/09/13 14:14:40]

nit: why don't you use kRegister_r7_Code like in assembler-arm.h? It makes it
easier to look for r7 aliases.

[rmcilroy_google, 2013/09/13 14:52:58]

Done (and done for cp and kRootRegister below).

+const Register cp = { 8 };  // JavaScript context pointer.
 const Register kRootRegister = { 10 };  // Roots array pointer.
 
 // Flags used for AllocateHeapNumber
 enum TaggingMode {
   // Tag the result.
   TAG_RESULT,
   // Don't tag
   DONT_TAG_RESULT
 };
 
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 #define __FILE_LINE__ __FILE__ ":" CODE_COVERAGE_TOSTRING(__LINE__)
 #define ACCESS_MASM(masm) masm->stop(__FILE_LINE__); masm->
 #else
 #define ACCESS_MASM(masm) masm->
 #endif
 
 
 } }  // namespace v8::internal
 
 #endif  // V8_ARM_MACRO_ASSEMBLER_ARM_H_